Dear support:
I have designed a PLL with ADF4150HV + HMC739, the configuration of ADF4150HV and loop filter I have used were listed below.
Reference input clock of ADF4150HV is 25Mhz
D=0, R=2, T=0, so the f_PFD=12.5 MHz,
RF Divider=1, FRAC=0, INT= 122, so the RF output is 1.525 GHz * 16 =24.4 GHz
Loop filter BW=50kHz, phase margin = 45 degree, and a 4th order filter model was used.
With the above configuration, the VCO HMC739 successfully produce a 24.4 GHz signal, but its phase noise looks very bad. I also measured the spectrum of the RF/16 and RF/2, and the spectrum of RF/16=1.525 GHz is much better than the one of RF = 24.4 GHz. The pictures below are spectrum of RF/16, RF/2 and RF signals of HMC739.
Q1: why the phase noise for RF/16, RF/2 and RF of HMC739 are different?
Q2: Is there any way to reduce the phase noise of the RF output?
I appreciate if someone can help me with my puzzle. Thanks a lot!
